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Call on Investors to Stand up for Human Rights in Darfur

Call on the most powerful companies in the world to use their influence to help end the human rights catastrophe in Darfur. Despite international diplomatic pressure, the Government of Sudan cont...

Sponsored by Amnesty International USA

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5,872

Ask Congress to Support the Youth PROMISE Act to Reduce Youth Violence

On Friday, February 13, 2009, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) and Congressman Mike Castle (R-DE-AL) re-introduced the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunity Mentoring, Intervention, Support a...

Started by Ted Nunn

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Genocide of Tamils taking place in Sri Lanka.

The genocide of Tamils is taking place in Sri Lanka and it seems like George Bush's "war on terror" policy is being exploited in an unjustful way to quench the thirst of the national extremism of t...

(595 comments)

Started by Sujeebavan Manoharan

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1,171

Protect Children from Assault!

We live in a day and age in which U.S. state laws permit age discrimination in the Constitutional citizenship birthright to "equal protection" under the law, specifically with regards to assault la...

Started by Christine Clarke

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Gloria Killian for the National Prison Reform Committee

Senator Jim Webb of Virginia has proposed a National Commission to study the American Criminal Justice System and correct its flaws. As originally proposed the Commission membership did ...

Started by ACTION COMMITTEE FOR WOMEN IN PRISON

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Sign the RAISE Hope for Congo Petition to the President

Add your name to this petition to ask our next president to announce his administration’s initial plan to end the scourge of violence against women and girls in eastern Congo on International...

(52 comments)

Started by Michael Bear

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754

Stand Up, BE COUNTED, in your support to end extreme poverty

Be Counted and be a part of the Guinness World Record. Join millions of others in calling on world leaders to honor their commitments to end extreme poverty by 2015 and achieve the Millennium Devel...

(180 comments)

Started by United Nations Millennium Campaign

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681

Teach Social Health to School Children

We would like to see anger management, coping mechanisms and conflict resolution skills taught at age appropriate levels to American school children at approximately two year intervals throughout t...

Started by Christine Clarke

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576

Boycott Tourism to Sri Lanka Until the Situation in the Camps Improves

Earlier this year more than 300,000 Sri Lankans fled to the camps to escape the brutal fighting which marked the end of Sri Lanka's twenty-six year civil war. Conditions in the camps are horrific. ...

Started by Michael Bear

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Children's Rights

Children born in the United States are entitled to protection under the same laws that safeguard all other citizens, as per the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Their citizenship does...

Started by Christine Clarke

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